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Title: Farewell

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: Martin Geeson

Length: 2 hrs 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (Adieu), Balzac adds to the 19th centurys literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the wings; the Lady of Shalott waits for the shadowy reflection of the world outside to shatter her illusion. Freuds earliest patients will soon enter the waiting-room in their turn.

Whilst out hunting two friends come across a strange waif-like woman shut up in a decaying chateau which one of them dubs the Palace of the Sleeping Beauty. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retreat of Napoleons army from Moscow and the grotesque massacre that was to traumatise the heroine, parting her from her lover.

Their reunion is more desperate still, as the earlier event is recreated in a bizarre and vain attempt to root out madness and compel the return of happiness

(Summary by Martin Geeson)

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Title: War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 2 hrs 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

War and Peace (Russian: , Voyna i mir; in original orthography: , Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels.

War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy's time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Title: Othello

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 3 hrs 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/28/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago, Othello's jealous ensign, who plots to destroy their union. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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Title: Ice Palace (Version 3)

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Bellona Times

Length: 1 hr 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who becomes engaged one summer to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified northern town. The following winter, on a visit to Harry's home town to meet Harry's family, Sally Carrol begins to have second thoughts... ( Summary by BellonaTimes, with help from Wikipedia )

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Title: Laches

Author: Plato

Narrator: Geoffrey Edwards

Length: 1 hr 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2015

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Laches discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand firm in battle, ferocious animals and the wise person who endures evils. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)

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Title: Grimm's Fairy Tales

Author: Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm,Wilhem Carl Grimm

Narrator: Bob Neufeld

Length: 10 hrs 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2/11/2012

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics, Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmrchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Mrchen).

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Title: La Comédie Humaine: 09 - Scènes de la vie parisienne tome 1 (7-11-43) - Histoire des Treize

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: Bernard

Length: 14 hrs 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 9/22/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, en définitif, la somme des types que présente chaque génération et que La Comédie Humaine comportera. Ce nombre de figures, de caractères, cette multitude d'existences exigeaient des cadres, et, qu'on me pardonne cette expression, des galeries. De là, les divisions si naturelles, déjà connues, de mon ouvrage en Scènes de la vie privée, de province, parisienne, politique, militaire et de campagne. Dans ces six livres sont classées toutes les Etudes de moeurs qui forment l'histoire générale de la Société, la collection de tous ses faits et gestes, eussent dit nos ancêtres... Les Scènes de la vie privée représentent l'enfance, l'adolescence et leurs fautes, comme les Scènes de la vie de province représentent l'âge des passions, des calculs, des intérêts et de l'ambition. Puis les Scène de la vie parisienne offrent le tableau des goûts, des vices et de toutes les choses effrénées qu'excitent les moeurs particulières aux capitales où se rencontrent à la fois l'extrême bien et l'extrême mal...

- Extrait de l'avant-propos de Scène de la vie privée Tome I de Honoré de Balzac

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Title: Nutcracker and Mouse King

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann

Narrator: Sandra Cullum

Length: 2 hrs 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/6/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

The original story of the Nutcracker, weird and wonderful by one of the masters of horror and weirdness. Summary by Sandra Cullum.

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Title: Gobseck

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: James E. Carson

Length: 2 hrs 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12/14/2016

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accustomed them to. This is a continuation of the tale of one of those daughters, Mme Restaud. (Summary by Jcarson)

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Title: Birthplace

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Nicholas Clifford

Length: 2 hrs 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/8/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to his plot. The story has to do with Mr. and Mrs. Gedge, tempted away from a dreary northern town library, which he runs, to become the wardens caretakers and tour guides of the house where the greatest writer of the English language was born, and in which he grew up. Or did he? There is, after all, a paucity of facts about His life (in James's text, that pronoun is always capitalized, as befits a deity) and only the slenderest of historical evidence about the existence of such a man.

No matter; what is important is the myth of his life, and the myth needs to be cared for and fostered so that crowds upon crowds of tourists may come, and, with a proper reverence, worship at His Birthplace. And yet it is only myth, and the more he thinks of it, the unhappier poor honest Gedge becomes (to Mrs. Gedge, however, a job is a job, and too much speculation on reality might perhaps lead to dismissal). James himself was high skeptical about the Shakespeare question (who actually did write all those plays?) But that's not the point here. Rather the story has to do with the making of a shrine, the selling of its wares (commodification, to use a fancy word) and the priesthood needed to protect the myths necessary to its existence.

What should the skeptical Gedge do about it? What, if anything, will he do? (Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)